Today, we jumped in the car and drove to Pisa, about one hour away. When we got there, we had lunch, gelato…and then headed to find the Leaning Tower. It wasn’t very hard to find though, because it sticks up over everything even though it leans very much. We looked around at the church and the baptistery and then checked our bags so we could climb the tower.

Our time to climb was 5:30. When we started, you always could feel like you were going uphill. Then you feel like you are going downhill. It was like a spinning ride at the Boardwalk! We thought we got to the top, and then there was more climbing to go. Then we got to the very top and we looked around, at the bells (which ring every morning), but we didn’t know that there was even more climbing to do. So we went to the very, very top. And that was it. The top felt especially leaning. It was good to feel straight again after we walked all the way down.